Freight-car-card holder.



T. A. BIGGS. FREIGHT CAR CARD HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26, I914.

Patented June 8, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1915.

Application filed February 1914. Serial No. 821,174.

This invention relates to freight car cards and holders therefor.

The general objects of the invention are to improve and simplify devicesof thecharactor referred to so as to be comparatively simple andinexpensive and so designed as to hold cards in such a manner as to beeasily and conveniently applied or removed, and thereby dispense withthe necessity of using the hammer and tack method now commonly employedin placing cards on freight cars.

In carrying out the invention the card holder is so designed that it isprovided with a button which is adapted to enter an opening in the card,and after the button is thus entered the side edges of the card areengaged under flanges on the sides of the holder, whereby the card isheld flat against the car body or door and yet is prevented fromdropping out by reason of the button on the holder. The button is ofelongated or elliptical formation and the hole in the card iscorrespondingly shaped.

so that the card in being applied is held with the major axis of theopening parallel with the major axis of the button, and after the buttonis entered in the card the latter is turned half way around and then theedges of the card are slipped under the retaining flanges of the holder.A card applied in this manner can be easily removed and used over againas often as required, and in fact both sides of the card may'containappropriate matter descriptive of the contents of the car, or any otherdesired informative matter. Of course all the cards will be the samesize and shape so as to be always ready for, use in the holders that arepermanently fastened to the cars.

For a more complete understanding of the invention reference is to behad to the following description and claims taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views, and in which- Figure 1 isaperspective view of the card i and card holder applied to a car; Fig. 2is an enlarged view of the holder with the card removed; and Fig. 3 is asectional view. on the line 33, Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing, A designates a freight'car card and'B theholder therefor. This card is printed according to any suitable form andis a fiat, rectangular piece of cardboard or other stiff material andprovided with a central. opening 1 which is preferably elongated in avertical line. The holder B is made of sheet metal or other suitablestock and is of plate-like formation fastened against the side of thecar body or door by screws or other fastenings 2, and the vertical edgesof this plate are bent out- 4 of the card. At the center of the holderis a card-engaging button formed by oppositely-disposed lugs 5 which arestamped out from the metal plate of the holder and are connectedtherewith by stem or shank portions 6 that form together the shank ofthe button. The major axis of the button head formed by the lugs 5 ishorizontal, and the button performs the two functions of supporting theweight of the card and preventing it from bulging out at the center,which latter-would be objectionable, as the edges of the card would belikely to disengage from the retaining flanges 3.

In applying a card to the holder the card is held in such a way that theopening 1 will have its major axis horizontal, and while held in thisposition the button of the holder is entered in the opening 1 of thecard. The

card is now turned through ninety degrees around the button as a center,whereby the edges of the card are in a position'where they can heslipped under the flanges 3,

which completes the operation of attaching the card. Of course inengaging the edges of the card under the flanges 3, the lateral portionsof the card must be sprung inwardly far enough to pass under theflanges. Obviously the card can be removed as easily as applied, and asit is not destroyed in being applied or removed, the card can be usedover and Over again indefinitely, or it can have informative matter onboth sides so that either side can be used.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, the advantages of the construction and method of operationwill be readily underthe invention appertains,

the art to which and While I have described the dBVlCe which I nowconsider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire stood by thoseskilled in to have it understood that the device shown is merelyillustratlve and that such changesmay be made when desired as are withmthe scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. The combination of a card having. an elongated opening, a holderhaving a button formed with an elongated edge to enter the open ng whenthe card is in a certaln po-, sition, and flanges with which the edgesof the card'may be engaged when the latter is turned on the button to adifferentposition.

2. A card holder comprising a plate hav-v v ing a pair of members bentinto oppositely disposed L-shaped lugs forming together a buttonoutstanding from the plate and integral therewith, the head of thebutton being elongated, devices on the plate to either

